Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 Across Missouri

Lindy Lou, a woman from rural Mississippi, always thought she could easily give the death penalty. Then she sat on a jury that handed down a capital punishment sentence to a man convicted in a double homicide. Twenty years later, in the new documentary film Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2, Lindy travels through Mississippi and interviews 11 jurors alongside whom she sentenced a man to death.

This film challenges the sense that many Missourians have – that the death penalty is an abstract, distant concept unlikely to personally affect us. “Every citizen in Missouri faces the possibility of participating on a capital jury, and it is a part of civic education to understand the full ramifications of this process. Every death sentence has a lasting human cost and impacts every individual in its proximity, including jurors. Like Lindy, many of us as citizens may be called to fulfill our jury duty. We each have another duty beyond this one – a duty to consider the realities of handing down a death sentence both for ourselves and for our communities,” said Staci Pratt, Executive Director of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, one of the organizations coordinating this screening tour.

Check out the full line up of free screenings happening in Missouri below. Each screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with local experts. Lindy Lou will join audiences at some of the screenings to share more of her story. The showings are presented by Good Pitch Local, a project devised by Doc Society, in partnership with Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP), Equal Justice USA, Working Films, and local organizations throughout the state.

Thursday September 7th at 7pm – St. LouisThe Tivoli Theatre, Auditorium No. 36350 Delmar Blvd.St. Louis, MO 63130Hosted by: Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Equal Justice USA, CURE, Preachers And Community (PAC), Second Chance Freedom Foundation, St. Louis Social Justice Committee of the General Baptist State Convention, WILPF, World Community Center, and Veterans for Peace – St. Louis chapter.

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This is Lindy Wells Isonhood and I am here to thank you for your interest in my story, and in the possibility of you viewing the screening of Lindy Lou Juror No. 2. I will personally be in Missouri during some of the screenings – Sept 12 – Sept 15. It may be impossible to speak with each and everyone of you but know how much I appreciate your support and helping me have a voice concerning this issue that most disregard.

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